Threat Levels

From Wired, via Boing-Boing: Look closely at the “Green” threat level. Yes, you are read­ing that cor­rectly. As a res­i­dent of America, you are more likely to be shot by a police offi­cer than killed in any type of ter­ror­ist attack. Now fac­tor in the well-documented racial bias in law enforce­ment strate­gies and arrest rates, …

Kabuki Dance

Friday, on the way home from work, I fig­ured the U.S. would try to shoot down the North Korean mis­sile test. The NPR story men­tioned that pos­si­ble out­come, and they wouldn’t do so unless one of their sources men­tioned it. Further, since the sources for this story would come from the for­eign pol­icy estab­lish­ment, AKA …